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Can get more than 300s Mbpa with the AC2200 in a 1000 Mbps
I used to pay for ATT fiber optica 300 Mbps speed and I was always getting even a little higher (320's Mbps) in all my devices with my Orbi AC2200. I changed lately to 1000 Mbps internet and the spee...
JuanEs wrote:It is supposed that the Orbi Ac2200 handles speed unitl 833 Mbps when connected to 5Ghz so why I can;t get more than 300's Mbps?. I am thinking to get the Orbi 6, but first I want to be sure the problems is the AC2200.
You are doing good if you achieve half the speed your wired connection is giving you.
Wi-Fi is a half-duplex medium. Wired is a full-duplex medium. If wireless is giving you close to half your wired speed, your WIFI is operating at near optimum performance. Wi-Fi is also a shared medium therefore it behaves as a hub. Devices wanting to transmit have to request and gain access before being able to transmit, creating overhead and slowing speed.
Regarding speed tests: If you use an internet speed test to measure the speed of your wi-fi, you will not get an accurate result, as there are many hub hops during the test, that could be slowing the test results. Also WIFI conditions along the hub hops, change often.
It is more accurate to measure your speed using the internal Orbi speed test for connection speed and use a porformance tester to test the speed between your wireless device and a device connected to your internal network.
Thanks!, so for what I am understanding if the wifi speed is affected by the own wifi protocols and the capacity of each device, it is telling me as well that changing from AC2200 system to the new Orbi WiFi 6 mesh won;t do much for me either unless I contract a higher speed internet?. For 1 Gb speed I have now then I should expect half. The actual speed I normally read connected by wire to the modem is somewhere between 600-800 Mbp, so 300-400 Mbp is most probably the best I can do independent of the mesh system? I mean, if I won't be able to get more than 500 Mbp with a 1 Gbp conection it doesn't make sense to expend $500 in a new system for probably 100 Mbp more.
How is the performance tester that can measure just the speed between the orbi and my device??, the only speed test I can find are those in internet that use a external server.